Location: 38.726°, -107.540°
Life off-the-grid requires a large amount of physical work, including building structures, maintenance and repair, gardening, chopping firewood, manual snow removal, preparing food and medicine, cleaning, etc. All these activities come with a challenging twist of being miles from a hardware store and often requiring advanced preparations and planning. Sometimes we organize community work events, but most of the time members are working on various projects on their own initiative. During the warm months (typically June-September) there are lots of visitors, events, and projects; colder months tend to be much quieter. We are open to visitors year round; however, our schedule does not accommodate spontaneous drop-in visits. Please, be sure to contact us if you are interested in coming to the land for a tour or visit. Although it is relatively inexpensive to live at the Wild Cooperative, the community currently generates very little income on site. Remote web-based work is possible with high speed internet connection available. Our main on-site income source have been classroom trainings, hands on workshops and yoga retreats. We see our small group as one of the elements of the social and economic network of the larger North and Smith Fork Valley communities. The surrounding small towns of Paonia, Hotchkiss and Crawford (all from 5 to 15 miles away) may provide some part-time and seasonal work such as farm work, wildcrafting for local restaurants, food processing, cooking, building, massage, music and dance lessons, teaching physical, mental and spiritual practices from India and beyond, consulting, teaching in the local school system including the Crawford Montessori school, practicing Chinese medicine, and many more. The land is about an hour drive to the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute in Basalt and we are blessed with a wonderful regeneratively focused community with many local permaculture and biodynamic courses being offered. The many craftsmen,
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Current weather in 38.726°, -107.540°: 78°F (26°C), drizzle, wind 5 mph.
Sun times in 38.726°, -107.540°: Sunrise 12:06 PM UTC · Sunset 2:26 AM UTC.
Features & keywords: Co-living, Raw Land, Farm Land, Cleared Land, Intentional Community, Meeting Space, Eco-Village, Co-housing, Affordable housing, Work trade, Workshops, Gardening, Homesteading, Pet Friendly, Rural, Off-grid, Water.
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